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judges of his time, Bratton was an ecclesiastic. His known church preferments are Barnstaple arch- deaconry, conferred upon him in 1264, but which the same year he quitted for the chancellorship of Exeter cathedral, retaining this latter dignity until his death in 1268. At his decease he enjoyed like- wise a canonry and prebend as well in Exeter cathedral church as in the collegiate church of Bosham. All these benefices were of the Bishop of Exeter's gift. At the same time as the king's clerk engaged in the king's business, Bracton could seldom or never have kept residence. His body was buried in Exeter cathedral, before an altar at which he had founded a perpetual chantry for his soul. Of Brat-' ton's great and comprehensive treatise "De Legibus", etc., written before 1259, the first printed edition was published in 1569 in folio, and reprinted in quarto in 1640. A recension and translation of the whole work in six volumes, by Sir Travers Twiss, wa-s issued in London (Rolls publications) from 1S78 to 1883.

Fos.s, Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England (London, 1870); Did. of Nat. Biog. (London, 1886). VI; Mait- LAND, Bracton's Note Book (London, 1887), for biography see introd. pp. 13-25.

C. T. BOOTHMAN.

Bradley, Denis Mart, first Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, U. S. A., b. 25 February, 1846, at Cas- tle-island, County Kerry, Ireland; d. at Manchester, 13 December, 1903. Shortly after his father's death his mother, with a family of five, emigrated to the United States and settled at Manchester. He was then eight years old. After attending the local schools, he was sent to Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1863, and closed his academic career there in June, 1867. He was then enrolled as an ecclesiastical student at St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, New York, where he was ordained priest 3 June, 1871. Shortly after this he was located at Portland, Maine, under Bishop Bacon, and subsequently under Bishop Healy, by whom he was appointed rector of the cathedral and chancellor of the diocese. In June, 1881, he was made pastor of St. Joseph's, Manchester, which became his cathedral when he was consecrated first Bishop of the new See of Manchester, 11 June, 1884. He had the honour of being the first alumnus of St. Joseph's Seminary of Troy, New York, to be raised to the episcopacy.

In the rural sections of New Hampshire there were many scattered Catholics who up to that time had had few facilities for practising their faith, and his first and earnest efforts were directed towards pro- viding for them, and with the most gratifying results. He held the first synod of the diocese 24 October, 1886, and under the energizing influence of his zeal and enthusiasm there was a general upbuilding of Catholicism throughout the State. The silver jubilee of his ordination was made the occasion of a striking demonstration of his great personal popu- larity, and this had another manifestation when every non-Catholic pulpit in Manchester bore sincere testimony to the loss his death had occasioned to the city and to the State.

Catholic Neivs (ilea (New York, December. 1903); Catholic Directory (Milwaukee, 1904); Reuss, Biog. Enci/l. of the Cath. //iCT-rtrrAy (Milwaukee, 1898); Gabriklb, History of St. Joseph's Scminiiry, Troy (New York, 1906).

Thoma.? F. Meehan.

Bradshaigh, Edward, an Enghsh Carmelite friar known in religion as Elias ;\ Jcsu; b. in Lancashire, England, early in the seventeenth century; d. at Ben- fold, 25 September, 1652. Ho was the fourth son of Roger Bradshaigh, of Haigh Hall, near Wigan, Eng- land, a member of one of the oldest families in Lanca- shire; of his immediate family three of the brothers were Jesuits, and one brother was a secular priest. While yet young he was sent to the Cassinese Bene-

dictines to be educated. In 1619 he joined the Discalced Carmelites in Belgium. In 1626 he was sent to England, where he laboured zealously until he was arrested and brought before the Archbishop of Canterbury, charged with being a Catholic priest. He was thrown into prison and suffered great hard- ships, but at length, at the intercession of powerful friends, including the King of Spain, he was liberated, and banished to France. In Paris he filled the office of reader in the CarmeUte monastery until 1632, when by order of his superior he returned to Eng- land and took up liis residence with his family at Haigh Hall. There he visited the poor, performed his priestly duties, and made many converts. To- wards the close of his life he devoted his time chiefly to the study of English antiquities. Bradshaigh was the author of two works on British antiquities, " De antiquis Monachis Insularum Britanniae, sub primitiva Ecclesia viventibus", and "Angliae Sanctae et Catholicae", both of which were lost in MS. A volume of poems, entitled " Virginialia, or Spiritual Sonnets in praise of the most glorious Virgin Marie ", published in 1632, is attributed to him. GtLLOw, Bibl. Diet. Eng. Cath.. I, 286.

Thom.\s Gaffney Taaffe.

Bradshaw, Henry, English Benedictine and poet, b. in the City of Chester, England, date unknown; d. 1513. From very early years his life was spent at St. Werburgh's monastery, with the exception of a period during which he was pursuing a course in theology at Gloucester College, O.xford. His WTitings are "De Antiquitate et magnificentia Urbis Cestrije", and "Chronicon and a Life of St. Werburgh". This second work, in English verse, includes the "Founda- tion of the City of Chester" and the "Chronicle of the Kings"; it fi.xes the year of Bradshaw's death by a poem addressed to him, was printed by Pinson in 1521, and re-edited by E. Hawkins for the Chetham Society, 1848. The poet followed mainly a Latin work then in the library of St. Werburgh, called "The True or Third Passionary", by an author whose name was unknown to Bradshaw. His work, wTitten not for the learned, but for the ruder classes, has been variously appraised by critics.

Hunt in Did. Nat. Biog.; Wahton, History of English Poetry.

3. Vincent Crown e.

Bradwardine, Thomas. See Thomas of Brad-

wakdine.

Brady, John. See Boston, Archdiocese of.

Brady, William Maziere, ecclesiastical writer, b. in Dublin, 8 January, 1825; d. in Rome, 19 March, 1894. He was nephew of Sir Maziere Brady, Bart., Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and youngest son of Sir Nicholas W. Brady who, whilst Lord Mayor of Dublin, was knighted by George IV during his visit to that city. William Maziere Brady entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1842, received the Degree of B.A. in 1848. B.D. in 18.58, and D.D. in 1863. In 1848 he was appointed Anglican curate of Maynooth and in 1849, curate of Klkeedy, Limerick. In 1851 he became curate of St. Dolough's, Dublin, and in the same year Rector of Farrahy, County Cork. In this year, also, he married a lineal descendant, on the maternal side, of the famous Protestant divine, Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor. Dr. Brady acted as chaplain to several successive viceroys, and in 1681 became Vicar of Clonfcrt, County Cork. While here he published in three volumes the "Cleri- cal and Parochial Records of Cork, Clojme and Ross" (Dublin, 1863), which he compiled from diocesan and parish registries and manuscripts in the principal libraries and public offices of Oxford, Dublin, and London, and from private and family papers. These "Records" are mainly those of the Protestant Dio- ceses of Cork, Clojme, and Ross, but will no doubt lie